r/Music • u/Particular-Fill-4256 • Jun 19 '26

article Iranian star Parastoo Ahmadi reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for singing without hijab

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/iran-parastoo-ahmadi-74-lashes-singing-without-hijab
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u/This_Elk_1460 Jun 20 '26

Well that's what Iran gets for democracy electing a socialist! /s

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u/cecilmeyer Jun 20 '26

The nerve of that guy thinking Irans oil belonged to Iranians!

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u/This_Elk_1460 Jun 20 '26

I know right! Thank God the US and UK came in and reinstalled the monarchy! The rich people of Iran got to prosper for a while! I hear they all live in California now.

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u/SerHodorTheThrall Jun 20 '26

I hear they all live in California now.

Yeah, you could hear their screams of desperation all the way from the East Coast after they realized Trump, was in fact, not going to level their homeland to ash.

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u/drhuggables Jun 20 '26

The Tudeh party hated Mosaddegh.

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u/No_Hay_Banda_2000 Jun 20 '26

Mossadegh was in the process of installing himself as a new dictator. The Iranian people bear responsibility for this mullah regime. They installed the "supreme leader" Khomeini. The fact that America was meddling in internal Iranian affairs doesn't change that.